The last bell of the day rang throughout the school signaling the day was over. The halls quickly filled up as students were heading to their lockers to go home.
A tall girl with curly red-ish brown hair and dull blue eyes slammed her locker shut and headed to the doors. As she walked on by, a group of teenager girls shorter than her tried to talk to her, but she simply ignored their requests and kept going.
Once at home, she stepped into the relaxing and cool air conditioned building and shut the door. She took off her school shoes and put them near the door with the other shoes and stepped in towards the stairs.
"Oh, Alexandra!" her mother popped her head from the kitchen, almost smacking into the girl. "We're having a guest over tonight, I picked out your dress for you." she went to go back into the kitchen before Alexandra mumbled,"Rather wear a potato sack.."
"What was that?" her mother came out again, leaning against the door frame as she put a hand on her hip, glaring at the girl. She rolled her eyes, walking up the stairs. "Nothing. I'll wear it.." "Thought so!" and she went back to cook dinner..
Once in her room Alexandra, or Alex as she calls herself, threw her backpack into the far corner of her room and locked her door. She brushed out her curled hair and put it in a simple side braid and went to her closet to change out of her uniform. She picked out a black tank-top with panda on it, a pair of light-wash blue skinny jeans and a pair of black knee length high-top converse and quickly changed into them.
Satisfied with her attire she grabbed her i-pod and flopped onto her bed and started to listen to music, drowning out the world around her..
Alex isn't much of a normal girl. Or at least not in her own town. Her family is a well known rich family in the town and she seems to be annoyed with it. She rather be poor. "Money doesn't buy happiness." as she always says. The kids at school always try to get to hang out with her, but she doesn't trust any of them. She did that once, and never went back to that. Her family never interacts with her, unless in front of others to look like a good family. They buy her anything she needs, but never anything she wants. But when it comes to her brothers, one younger and older than her, they are babied around the house. The kings, as her parents call them. But to them, she's just a simple maid..
"Alexandra! Get down here already!" her mother's voice called from downstairs. "The guest is almost here!" she huffed, lazily dragging herself off her bed and near her chosen outfit for the night. It was a dress, blue, white and black. It had a slight puff to the skirt, that ended just below her knees. "Oh god, what am I five?" she picked it up and slipped it over her clothes. She didn't feel like taking them off, and she really didn't care either.
She unlocked her door and headed downstairs to see her grandparents right at the bottom. A huge smile broke out onto her face as she ran into their arms. They were the only ones in the family that seemed to care about her. To see her for who she truly was.
"Alex, sweetheart!" her grandmother laughed as they both hugged their grandchild.
"Hey guys!" she cried as she stepped back from them. Her mother came up from behind them, only to glare at their backs. Alex saw this and simply glared back, sending her mother away towards the dining room. The doorbell rang and Alex went to answer it, beating her mother to it. "Oh, hello Mr. Klahadore!" Alex gave him a huge smile, which was not real. She hated this man since the first day they met. He use to babysit her, and has been a "friend" of the family for years. He would always make her feel like crap when ever they were alone together. Saying things to get her angry or sad, to mess with her emotions. He would make her feel frightened by the man as well. She still was, but he couldn't do anything to her anymore, now that she was almost an adult. She hated him from the bottom of her heart, but now that she's a teenager, she wants to get revenge somehow. But that's for another time..
He looked a bit surprised by her happy attitude towards him, but hid it, although she saw it. She could read people like books. One of her many talents~
"Hello Alexandra.."he said in a more adult, mature way. She rolled her eyes and let the man in. He was wearing an odd suit, but she said nothing about it. They all went to the dining room and sat down as dinner was about to start.
Alex was laughing and talking with her grandparents, who sat on both sides of her as if for protection, while the others talked about business, and more boring adult subjects. Klahadore turned to face Alex, making her stop from talking to look back. "So, Alexandra.." her brow twitched as he used her full name. She hated it. "How is school?" he asked. She scoffed. Why is he asking me this? She put on a fake smile and answered,"Boring and completely useless?" her mother and father's faces dropped.
"Alexandra!That is no way to-" "Oh can it John!" her grandfather shouted, shutting the man up. Oooh! She laughed to herself. "Why is that?" Klahadore asked again. The three of them rolled their eyes. "Because it's a waste of time to learn things I don't even care for and simply don't need to know for the future. You should know that," she rested her chin in her palm, a smirk lay on her lips. "Or are you just down right stupid?" Her grandparents tried to stiffle their giggles, but failed. "Oh sister, always as immature as a 3 year old I see." her older brother, James, added onto the conversation. "Is that a challenge, monkey boy?" her brother's face contorted into anger. "Why you-!"
"That is enough!" her mother shouted, grabbing everyone's attention. "Oh yes I think I've had enough too!" Alex smiled as she stood from her chair. "Of?"
"You." she grabbed the top of her dress and yanked at it, ripping the delicate fabric in half as she stepped out of it to show off her original outfit from before.
"Young lady! You will-!" "Ohh, so scary!" she clapped her hands on her face dramatically. "You all act so high and full of power.."she stood on her chair, using it as a ladder as she jumped onto the table, startling everyone but her grandparents. "but really, your just as low as everyone else, hm?" she strolled over to her parents side of the table to smile deviously down at them. "That is not true!" her mother gasped. "You better get down from that table!" her father added.
"Oh, I don't think I want to!" she twirled around, feeling full of adrenaline from this little argument. She always had a huge taste for these things. She was enjoying herself, putting people into their place.
Klahadore stood up from his seat, fixing his tie. "Such a troublesome girl!" he glared at her. "Oh, and so he talks!" she twirled before hopping down in front of him. "Acting like he's some, polite and sophisticated man.. but in reality your the lowest of them all aren't you?" she pointed at her parents behind her, not taking her eyes from the man in front of her. "Just waitin' to join 'em!" "Alexandra!" her father warned. "Can it, mustache."
Her little brother laughed at that. She smiled as he laughed, she wasn't very close to the younger boy, but she could see he really did look up to her. Seemed he wasn't liking how her parents worked either.
"An act?" Klahadore scoffed, a nervous sweat sliding down his face. "Oh yeah. Whenever my parents would leave me in your care, you would always turn into such a..demon?" she got closer to his face in a challenging manner. "Is this true, Klahadore?" her mother asked. "Oh as if you care either way mother!" Alex laughed, looking back at her mother for a brief moment before turning back to Klahadore.
As she turned back to the man, a hand came down and slapped her, making her stagger back. " Klahadore!" her grandparents got up from their chair, ready to defend Alex but she stopped them with holding up her hair. Alex took a look at her hand, seeing a bit of blood on her face from the ring he had on his hand that slapped her. She chuckled before bringing her fist up and straight to his face, a satisfying cracking sound coming from his nose as she punched his face. "My nose!" he fell to the ground, covering his nose as blood oozed from it. Her parents and older brother ran to his aid as she stepped back. "Whew, been wanting to do that for years!" she went over and high-fived her younger brother and grandparents. "Alexandra! Apologize this instant!" her mother stood up to yell at the girl. "Hm..no!" she smiled before dashing out the room and up the stairs, locking her bedroom door as her mother continued to lose her cool. She laughed loudly as she moved around her room to the window, opening it and climbing out to reach a branch on the tall tree outside. She slammed the window shut loudly on purpose, as if telling them she was going out.
She slid down the trunk and jogged off behind the house and into the dark yet peaceful woods..
Once at her destination, she sat down. She was now on a cliff behind her house a ways a way. She could hear her father's shouts from outside the house, but didn't fret. He would never come to her special spot. Her special cliff was just above the deep and dark ocean as the waves rocked back and forth, splashing against the tall cliff's surface below.
She would always come here when she was upset. Right now was a perfect example. She was furious, yet she was also content. She wanted to escape this place, get away from the people that she could never trust. She wanted to be free.
As she sat there in the soft grass, she listened to her father's angry shouts. She could hear him getting even farther away from her, which she wanted to laugh at but decided to stay quiet until he was near gone.
She was sure that he was almost gone when her ears picked up another voice. "Klahadore.."she growled. She just knew he would try and help him find her. Too bad they were too stupid to do so. She listened as he told her father to go back inside the house, and that he would find her. She scoffed. Cocky bastard..
She leaned back into the grass, laying down as she looking at the full moon in front of her. It was shocking to have such a peaceful and harmless place right in a world full of chaos and cruelty. So much cruelty.
"We meet again, Alexandra." she shot up from her spot on the ground to see Klahadore behind her, a smirk on his bandaged face. She would have laughed at the sight, but was too shocked to do so.
"How'd you..oh never mind." she stood up to meet his gaze. "Don't think you can simply escape me.." he stepped forward, resulting in her stepping back. "Now, come along back to receive your punishment." he gave a wicked grin as she continued to step back.
She almost tripped off the edge of the cliff but quickly stabled herself. "Come on now!" he shouted now, getting impatient. She looked behind her and down the cliff, then back at him. "Must I take you by force?" he inquired. She took one last glance behind her. "Want to be free.." she whispered. "What was that?" he asked. She shot him a glare before stepping back a bit, spreading her arms out as a determined look spread across her face. "I will be free!" she shouted.
And then she let go..
She let go of all the anger, the pain. Everything that had happened all her life, and washed it in the ocean as she planned on doing the same thing to herself. And the last thing she saw was the look of utter disbelief of Klahadore's face, before she plunged straight down into the murky blue waters below..
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A groan escaped Alex's mouth as she slowly opened her eyes halfway, too blinded by the sun's light above to open them fully. Wait..sun?she moved her head to the side a bit to try and see where she was, but her eyes wouldn't get rid of the watering blurriness in them. She tried to feel the area around her. Sand..?her fingers dug into the hot grains below her. How can I be on a beach? Her eyes started to blur even more, black spots turning up in her vision. Her vision was almost completely gone, but before her eyes had a chance to shut a figure with a straw hat came into her view, blocking out the sun. Her eyes closed as she was lifted gently off the sandy ground and into the arms of the figure. She slipped back into her deep sleep, but before she was fully unconscious she could hear the figure speak,"It's alright little one." it said. "It's going to be just fine.." and then she blacked out..